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Everything Written on ARealGreenLife in 2020

This post lists everything I wrote in 2020, organized by category. Thanks so much for reading along. I'll be back with more in 2021!

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2020 Post Collections

Growing What We Need

Growing Up - for Adults

Growing What We Need

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How to Harvest and Use Queensland Arrowroot

Queensland arrowroot (Cana edulis) provides food for us, food for chickens, pigs, cattle and goats, mulch and/or compost material, and shelter for other plants. It’s super easy to grow and to harvest and it self-propagates to a certain extent but is not weedy or invasive. And I think it looks beautiful. What more could a polyculture food grower ask?

Homemade Ginger Sauerkraut

About how the ginger growing in our garden has inspired successful homemade sauerkraut in our kitchen, which in turn has inspired better maintenance of the ginger plants in the garden. Sauerkraut recipe included.

Stinging Nettle: Nourishment for You and Your Garden

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has a long history of use for food, medicine, cordage, and dye. Here are some ideas for making use of the free food and fertilizer that this under-appreciated weed has to offer.

Okinawa Spinach

Okinawa spinach (Gynura crepioides) is an edible, nutritious, prolific, and low maintenance ground covering plant. It looks good enough to landscape with. And the more you eat it, the better it looks.

Sweet Violet – Edible, Medicinal, Beautiful

Sweet Violet (Viola odorata), is a shade-loving, ground-covering plant with a super-long list of nutritive, medicinal, and sense-pleasing attributes.

Rungi – Rainforest Floor Vegetable

A vegetable from the tropical highlands of Papua New Guinea, rungi (Rungia klossii) is an attractive, edible, nutritious year-round ground cover for the tropics and semi-tropics.

Building Ecosystems as a Side-Effect of Growing Food

This post uses a pumpkin patch to illustrate how interrelated elements in a vegetable garden, an orchard, or any living system, are healthier and happier than isolated fragments of life existing alone.

Regenerative Farming and Gardening

Regenerative gardening and farming has an intention to both feed people AND to leave the surrounding web of life stronger, richer, more complex and more resilient, rather than less so.

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RealFood

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Weeds: Real Nutrition for Free

Wild edibles (aka weeds) provide better nutrition than supermarkets ever can, for free.

What’s Happened to Your Mineral Intake?

Minerals are essential to life, but they’ve become dramatically less available to us in the food we eat. This article explores why.

Easy, Natural Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Diet

Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soil, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills?

Supermarket Food is Like a Tiger in a Zoo

Industrialized food is a commodity, a hollow copy of what it was before it was disconnected from the web of life that gifts it to us – just as a tiger in a zoo is a hollow copy of the real, wild thing.

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Reconnecting

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Through the Lenses of Separation vs Interbeing

Logical, rational thinking understandably sees things as separate. ‘I am me; everything else is something “other” than me.’ There is another way to see things. Through a lens of interbeing, I am still me, but now I recognize that I’m closely related to everything that the mindset of separation calls “other.”

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Growing Up - for Adults

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Expanding on the Grandmother Effect

How women, and older women in particular, can contribute to peace and well-being for families, communities, and the wider web of life.

Why Your Least Visible Work is Your Most Important Work

(10th in a Series) When you do the deep personal work necessary to give up conflict (internal and external), this invisible choice wields power out of all proportion to its humble appearance.

Why Your Most Important Responsibility is Taking Care of You

(9th in a Series) As within, so without. How we care for our innermost selves, each other, and our planet, are all linked. As urgent as it may seem to address those issues “out there,” it’s essential to begin “in here.”

On Making the Least Change for the Greatest Effect

(8th in a Series) In our make-it-happen culture, making a difference to anything means grunting and sweating, burning the candle at both ends, making herculean efforts. It’s an that approach keeps us in battle mode and sustains drama and conflict.

How to Go From “Distracted” to “On Track” with these 2 Simple Strategies

(7th in a Series) There are ways to set up your distractions on purpose so that they still lead you in the right direction.

Are You Going After Your Goals the Hard Way or the Easy Way?

(6th in a Series) The idea that you need motivation and will power to reach your goals is part of a story that says if we use enough of the right kind of force, we’ll get to the goal. There is an easier way.

Is it Important, or Merely Urgent?

(5th in a Series) By prioritizing what is important over what is urgent, you can live a more spacious, meaningful, satisfying life.

The Power to Make a Difference

(4th in a Series) How your taking care of your “response-ability”—your ability to choose your own responses—increases your personal power and expands your influence.

Are You Acting on Life or Is Life Acting on You?

(3rd in a Series) How to focus your energy where you can be most effective, rather than wasting it on things that you cannot make any difference to.

One Moment at a Time

(2nd in a Series) Here is a way of looking at even the really big challenges that breaks them down to a manageable size.

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